The foundation of morals, Utility, or the

Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that

actions are right in proportion as they tend
to promote happiness, wrong as they tend
to produce the reverse of happiness.
Act so that you treat humanity, whether in
your own person or in the person of any
other, always at the same time as an end,
never merely as a means
"x is better than y" means "If anyone were,
in respect of x and y, fully informed and
vividly imaginative, impartial, in a calm
frame of mind and otherwise normal, he
would prefer x to y
A full-grown horse or dog, is beyond
comparison a more rational, as well as a
more conversable animal, than an infant of
a day or a week or even a month, old
Homosexuality is unnatural
If someone thinks that breaking promises is
wrong, then he/she will not break them
No reasonable person would sell their car
so cheaply
Politicians often behave irresponsibly
Witnesses have a legal obligation to answer
truthfully
It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than
a fool satisfied
Smoking forbidden
It is not self-contradictory to say that some
pleasant things are not good
You should eat more vegetables
Americans do not have a right to
healthcare
Homosexuality is unnatural
Morals excite passions, and produce or
prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly
impotent in this particular. The rules of
morality therefore are not conclusions of
our reason.
Is the pious loved by the gods because it is
pious? Or is it pious because it is loved by
the gods?
A full-grown horse or dog, is beyond
comparison a more rational, as well as
more conversable animal, than an infant of
a day or a week or even a month, old.
Mummy says that hitting other kids is
wrong
Ought implies can
Infanticide was permissible for the Romans
Vice and virtue...may be compared to
sounds, colours, heat and cold, which,

according to modern philosophy, are not

qualities in objects, but perceptions in the
mind